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From my perspective,

> This hype around AI is gaudy. Nearly every implementation feels cheap, half-baked, and obnoxious.

is true but does not imply:

> AI is completely useless in almost every way I see it implemented

which is not true. It's just harder to get real value out of it than junk. And it's a completely new "skill" to get value out of LLMs which most of us aren't learning.

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But why bother learning this as a skill? The time value simply does not exist despite the tech-bubble’s hype.

Let’s look at real-world usage. Two of the most grueling tasks most people encounter in a year are filing taxes and understanding contracts. LLMs can ingest a lot of data to help in both scenarios, but whatever it advises is useless until a company accepts liability for it’s output.

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